posthumous
After one dies
Posthumous describes something occurring or appearing after death.
A posthumous award honors someone who has died.
A posthumous novel is published after the author's death.
A posthumous child is born after the father has died.
The word carries a sense of recognition or continuation beyond the grave: He received a posthumous pardon fifty years after his execution.
Will validation proceedings
- willFaculty of deliberate choice
- inheritanceProperty received from ancestors
- bequestGift left by will
- testamentWritten proof or legacy
executor · codicil · intestate · estate · heir · beneficiary · trust · succession
Tribute for the dead
- homageExpression of deep respect
- remembranceAct of holding something in mind
- memorialThing preserving remembrance
- tributeOffering of respect
veneration · reverence · celebration · testimonial · dedication · ceremony · anniversary · observance
Existence beyond mortality
- deceasedNo longer living
- mortalityState of eventual death
- passingMoving by or temporary
- demiseCessation of existence
remains · burial · interment · grave · cemetery · funeral · cremation · epitaph
Honor given for merit
- medalMetal honor token
- recognitionPerceiving something as known
- tributeOffering of respect
- commendationFormal expression of approval
decoration · knighthood · citation · degree · accolade · dedication · naming · statue
Original text before publication
- unpublishedNot yet in print
- anthologyCollected literary works volume
- memoirWritten personal recollection
- lettersAlphabetic characters or mail
diaries · journals · drafts · fragments · archive · discovery · release · compilation
Collective opinion of someone
- heritageInherited cultural legacy
- impactForceful contact or consequence
- contributionSomething given to help
- footprintMark from stepping
influence · endowment · preservation · remembrance · continuity · perpetuation · recognition · immortality
probate
Will validation proceedings
- willFaculty of deliberate choice
- inheritanceProperty received from ancestors
- bequestGift left by will
testament · executor · codicil · intestate · estate · heir · beneficiary · trust · succession · predecease
eulogy
Tribute for the dead
- homageExpression of deep respect
- remembranceAct of holding something in mind
- memorialThing preserving remembrance
tribute · veneration · reverence · celebration · testimonial · dedication · ceremony · anniversary · observance · vigil
afterlife
Existence beyond mortality
demise · remains · burial · interment · grave · cemetery · funeral · cremation · epitaph · tombstone
award
Honor given for merit
- medalMetal honor token
- recognitionPerceiving something as known
- tributeOffering of respect
commendation · decoration · knighthood · citation · degree · accolade · dedication · naming · statue · monument
manuscript
Original text before publication
- unpublishedNot yet in print
- anthologyCollected literary works volume
- memoirWritten personal recollection
letters · diaries · journals · drafts · fragments · archive · discovery · release · compilation · collection
reputation
Collective opinion of someone
- heritageInherited cultural legacy
- impactForceful contact or consequence
- contributionSomething given to help
footprint · influence · endowment · preservation · remembrance · continuity · perpetuation · recognition · immortality · lasting
offspring
Biological descendants produced
- descendantsThose who come after
- heirsThose who inherit
- childrenYoung human beings
successors · lineage · issue · kin · family · bloodline · dynasty · posterity · born · child
- mortalitydeath, death knell, deceased, death rate, death acceptance
- authorshipauthorship, author bio, byline, attributed, credited
- deathdead, deceased, corpse, mortality, demise
- birthlive birth, stillbirth, premature birth, breech birth, multiple birth
- Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson, poems, fascicles, dashes, Lavinia
- military honorsMedal of Honor, Purple Heart, Silver Star, Bronze Star, Navy Cross
posthumousantemortem
Before life ends
premortem · ante-mortem · in vivo · lifetime · living
posthumoustimely
Occurring when appropriate
contemporaneous · immediate · lifetime achievement · early · premature
- posthumous fameAcclaim arriving after death
- posthumous releaseWork published after creator's death
- posthumous pardonOfficial forgiveness after death
- posthumous workCreation published after death
- posthumous honorsAccolades bestowed after death
- posthumous recognitionHonor given after death